How to make a embossed Vindonissa cingulum plate.

[LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS]

Thanks, Jurjenius.

With a metal pointed compass punching in the center we mark the metal with a big cercle. You have to make some pression to make a incision in the metal.

Then we draw six intersecting cercles, only the portion inside the big cercle. Those intersecting cercles have to be the same radius as the central one:




Now we put a big steel washer centered in the plate, and hammer it over a lead block. Of course, you need such item... :lol:



Then you turned the plate with the steel washer in the same position. And then, hammer with a ball pointed hammer, to make a kind of boos or umbo in the center of the piece. Think that the original plates were'nt perfectly centered, and ours will not be, because the wassher moves when you hammer it.